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DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. GWENNAP. 887 restoration a piscina of Late Decorated work, and the base TREVARTH is quarter mile west, and near it is an extensive of a five shafted font of Purbeck marble were discovered : bed of fire clay. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. · in I882 the gallery was remon~tl and the church reseated ToLGULLOW is a village 2~ miles north-by-west in St. Day throughout and a new organ is shortly to be erected : the ecclesiastical parish. PENNANCE is a hamlet I mile west. east window js a memorial to the late Sir William Williams hart. and there are others to Col. ·Richard Williams ; Mrs. PosT OFFICE, Gwennap.-Thomas Bailey, receiver. Letters Beauchamp Tucker, ofTrevince, and to the Rev. S. B. Drury, through Scorrier R.S.O. by foot post, arrive at IO a.m. ; a former curate. ·The register dates from the year 1658. dispatched at 2.45 p.m. The v.~rest money order & tele The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value from tithe rent graph office is at St. Day charge £429, net income £380, with residence and 68 acres PosT OFFICE, Carharrack.-Mrs. Nannie Elizabeth Michell, <>f glebe land, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, receiver. Letters arrive through Scorrier R.S.O. by foot and held since 1856 by the Rev. Saltren Rogers M.A. of Exeter post at 8.55 a.m.; dispatched at 3-I5 p.m. The nearest College, Oxford, and hon. canon of Truro. At Scorrier is a money order & telegraph office is at St. Day temporary mission room, served by the clergy of St. Day parish church. There are Wesleyan chapels at Frogpool PosT & MoNEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings and Sunny Corner, and for Bible Christians at Hick's Mill. Bank, Scorrier R.S.O.-John Bawden, postmaster. Letters A cemetery of 2 acres was formed in I855 at a cost of arrive here & are sorted for St. Agnes,Blackwater, St.Day, £I,2oo, and is under the control of a Burial Board of 7 Ch?..Cewater, Mount-Hawke, & other surrounding places members·. There are arsenic works at Point, 2~ miles east- PosT OFFICE, Cusgarne.-Joseph Rowse, receiver. Letters by-north from the church town. Gwennap Pit -is a spacious arrive· at Io a.m.; and are dispatched at IO.I5 a.m grassy amphitheatre formed in the year I803, and has been ---------- -------------------------------------- found very convenient for large assemblies and used by the ..lrrive. Place. Dispatched• Rev. John Wesley and others as a place of worship; it was .entirely reconstructed, and is now encompassed by a wall about 8 feet high~ the circumference at the top is 340 feet and the sloping sides are surrounded with thirteen tiers of 7.15 a.m. London & all parts .............. 4·45 p.m steps or seats about sixteen inches high and three feet wide, 2 p.m. North mail .......................... II.o a.m leaving a considerable area at the bottom: it has been found 8 a.m. Plymouth, Bristol &c ............ 7·3o p.m eapable of seating about two thousand persons, and is now 5 p.m. Penzanc~ &c. ·~ ...................... the property of the Wesleyans, whose ministers preach there -on Whit Monday and other special occasions. Jonathan Rashleigh esq. Lord Clinton, Lord Clifford and the Rev. St. INSURANCE AGENTS ;- .Aubyn Bender Molesworth-St. Aubyn M.A. are lords of the Lancashire, 'f. L. Richards, Lanner moor; & J. Bawden, manor and chief landowners. The soil is partly granite Scorrier and killas. The chief crops are oats, barley and green Liverpool, London ~ Globe;J. W. Towan, Carharrack crops. The area of the parish is 7,940 acres; rateable value, Royat J<armers', E. A. Pearce, Scorrier .£13,879 Ios.; the population of the civil parish in I88I was PUBLIC OFFICERS :- -6,209. Clerk to the Burial Board, Thomas Reed, Lanner Carharrack is a large village I mile north, through Registrar of Births cf Deaths, Thomas Rowse which a railway passes, used solely for the conveyance of minerals. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels, SCHOOLS;- and a Mechanics' and Literary Institute. A Church A School Board of 7 members was formed in I874; G. S. Mission chapel is being erected (I883). Bray, Redruth,clerk to the board CROFTHANDY is half mile north and has a W esleyan Board, Lannarth, built in I878 for 300 children; John ehapel. Richards, master ; Miss Elizabeth Hockin, mistress ' Scorrier is the seat of the large tin smelting establish Board, Cusgarne, for 120 children; average attendance, 65; ments of Messrs. Williams, Harvey and Co. At Scorrier William John Nicholls Oliver, master Gate is a station on the West Cornwall (Great Western) Railway Station, Scorrier Gate, John Stephens, station Tail way. master Gwennap. Cathedral Consols Copper Mine (Cathe- Michell Jn. mine agent, Low. Trevethan PRIVATE RESIDENTS, dral Consols Mining Co. Lim.) (Edwd. Michell Wm. Six Bells, Church town Ashmead, sec.; Stephen Davey, man.; l\'Iitchell J oseph, butcher & farmer, Beauchamp-Beaachamp Edmund J.P· Stephen Davey, jun. chief agent) Frogpool Trevince Clinnack Richard, butcher, Frog pool Moyle Frederick, sexton Blarney Philip, Cusgarne Combellack John, shopkeeper Moyle George, farmer, Frogpool Ham J ames, Crofthandy Cornish Thomas, farmer, Pulla Murley Edwd. Mine1·s' inn, Crofthandy Magor Richard, Goongumpas I Curnow Thomas, farmer, Tretharrup Nicholls James, farmer, Tretharrup Phillips Mrs. Rose hill Curtis John, cabinet maker, Comford Northey Jeremiah, farmer, Consols Pryor Athanasius, jun. Burncoose Davey John, butcher & farmer, Vogue North Penstruthal Copper o/ Tin Mine Rogers Rev. Saltren M.A. [vicar & hon. Davey Stephen, butcher, Ninnis (Nm·th Penstntthal Mining Co.) canon Truro cathedral], Vicarage Evans Joey (Mrs.), farmer, Trevarth (Stephen Davy, man.; William Pol- Trythall William John, Lower Cusgarne Fitten & Gazey, fustian cutters, Little kinghorne, agent) Williams John Charles, Burncoose Beside Oates John Henry, butcher & farmer, Williams Miss, Treviskey Goldsworth Joseph, farmer, Lower Hick's mill ~'illiams Mrs. Pengreep Trevethan Odgers Jonah, farmer, Trebowling COMMERCIAL. Goldsworthy Richard, farmer, Carn- Opie John, shoe maker, Church town Andrew Charles, pork dealer, Penpons marth (east side) Pascoe William Mitehell, miller (water), .Andrew Henry, Miners' Arms Gould John Nicholas, farmer & mer- I Cusgarne .Andrew William, farmer, Tresamble chant, Court farm Paynter John, ·manure merchant, Andrew William, farmer, Goverrow Green Richard, boys' school, Trevarth Hick's mill · Andrew William John, farmer, Gear Harris Alfred. miller, Coombe mills Pengilly Chas. man. Trevince chemical Andrews Waiter, farmer, Casscadden Hearle Wm. Hy. farmer & guardian of works, Penventon Bailey Peter, Victory inn, Twelveheads the poor, Tywarnhayle farm Peters Samuel, farmer, Gilly vale Bailey Thomas, shopkeeper, & post .Johns Arthur, farmer, Crowgey Phillips Hugh,jun.farmer,Manorwidden office, Church town Johns Geo. mine agent, Sparry bottom Polkinhorn Samuel, farmer & miller, Barratt William, farmer, Trevarth !Johns Thos. shopkpr. Lower Trevethan Cusgarne mill Beale John, agent, Tolgullow 1 Jory Nicholas, carpenter, Comford Pryor Athanasius, Copper Co.'s samp- Bennets Eliza (Mrs.), farmer, Hick's 1 Karkeet George,farmer ling agent, Bell mill Kellow James, farmer, Pulla Pryor .Athanasius, jun. land steward to Bennett John, farmer, Chycoose Knotwell James, farmer, Trevethan J. C. Williams esq. Burncoose Berryman Thos. farmer, Chygenter Knotwell John, farmer, Busveal Ralph l\Iary (Mrs.), farmer, Carnmarth Born William, farmer, Trebowling Vean Knuckey Mary(Mrs.), shopkpr.Frogpool Rapson Mary (Miss), frmr. Tresamble Bray Hugh, farmer, Hick's mill LawryHarriet (Mrs.), shopkpr. Coombe Reed Henry, farmer, Church town Brown & Willmore, marine paint manu- Lawry Richard, farmer, Casscadden Rowe Charles Francis, Fox ~ Hounds facturers, Cusgarne Manley Solomon,farmr.HigherCusgarne Corn ford Cannon Nicholas, shopkeeper, Trevarth Martin Henry, farmer, Merrymeeitng Rowse John, miller, Point mills Cemetery (Thomas Reed, clerk to the, May Abraham, grocer, Furnace plat Rowse Joseph, ironmonger, & post burial board) ' Michell Henry, mine agent, Tolgullow I office, Lower Cusgarne .